Narrow Vein Mining Conference 2008

Conference Proceedings

Published in 2008

Narrow vein mining operations form a relatively small but important part of the mining industry.
The skills and expertise required to manage these natural resources are arguably
highly specialised, and can include dealing with issues of potentially complex
geology, a high to extreme nugget effect, high planned and additional dilution,
the need for strong selectivity, high-stress conditions, low tonnes per vertical
metre, and coarse gold and sometimes complex metallurgy.

The future of narrow vein mining depends upon skilled professionals and on developing practical and
innovative methods for orebody definition, mining and mineral processing. All
this must be undertaken within a framework of safe working practices,
environmental sustainability and economic viability.